“I firmly support the action that President Hollande has taken to strike ISIL in Syria and it’s my firm conviction that Britain should do so too”, Cameron said.
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Cameron lost a vote in Parliament two years ago to allow attacks on Syria, and has been reluctant to even suggest a vote until he could be certain to win.
Mr Cameron said on his Twitter account he had stood “shoulder to shoulder” with Mr Hollande at the venue, where a British man was among the dead on November 13.
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said the prime minister would address a number of questions raised by MPs surrounding the diplomatic and military implications of attacking IS in Syria.
“The United Kingdom will do all in our power to support our friend and ally France to defeat this evil death cult”, Cameron said Monday.
Speaking to Sky News, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the Government was briefing MPs and said: “We have to get out and convince, particularly new MPs, of the case”.
Mr Cameron’s case will come in the form of a response to a report by the Commons foreign affairs committee which expressed severe reservations about the coherence of the government’s case.
Mr Hollande said: “We will intensify our strikes, choosing targets that will do the most damage possible to this army of terrorists”.
David Cameron will pledge an extra £12 billion ($18.2 billion, 17.1 billion euros) for the military Monday as he pushes Britain’s parliament towards a vote on joining air strikes in Syria within days.
The Prime Minister will release a seven-point plan spelling out the legal grounds for war and how Britain will work with countries in the region towards a political solution to the wider Syrian civil war.
The U.K.’s Ministry of Defence said Royal Air Force Akrotiri base would be available as an “emergency diversion airfield” to support the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, which arrived in the eastern Mediterranean on Monday.
Mr Cameron is visiting Paris to discuss the fight against terror with President Francois Hollande. “We can do that without a combined military command structure, we just need to talk to each other”.
The United Nations Security Council supported a draft resolution by France calling for countries to “combat by all means” the “unprecedented threat” of the militant group.
The attacks in Paris, the bombing of a Russian jetliner and the shootings of British tourists in Tunisia has brought the threat of the Islamic State group close to home.
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Mr Michel told reporters that authorities feared “an attack similar to the one in Paris, with several individuals who could also possibly launch several attacks at the same time in multiple locations”.
